Valparaiso University - Beacon / Record Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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Alumni Association Correlative with the life and growth of an educational institution should be the life and growth at an alumni associations Realizing that such an organized group could do much to Further the welfare of the University, a number of alumni gathered on Homecoming Day, October 97,1934, to take the necessary steps in the adoption ol a Constitution and in the election of permanent oHicers lor the organization. This assemblage has, since that day, become known as the Alumni Association of Valparaiso University. HThe Fostering of a spirit 0F Friendship among the gracluates and Former students ol Valparaiso LEONARD SCIiRAMBi . . s . President Unwersnty and the promotion by collective and individual co-operation of the welfare of Val- paraiso University was the objective under which the group became oHicially organized While its main purpose is to bring the graduates and students of Former clays into closer contact, the Alumni Association aims also to promote the present interests of the institution by attempting to win prospective students For Valparaiso University. Since the organization of the Association last Fall, 0 number at local chapters have begun activity in the ellort to expand the Association Among the First groups to take action are the cities of St. Louis, lndianapolis,and Detroit, and prospects are that in the very near Future other cities will also begin work in that direction. Officers of the Association were elected at the First meeting and Mr. Leonarcl Schramm, 31, Farmington, Missouri, was chosen as the president. Mrs Floyd Vance, '26, Crown Point, lncliana, was elected vice-president, and Mr. Robert Moellering, ,33, was elected treasurer. These oFlicers, together with the president of the University and the executive secretary, constitute the executive committee of the organization. The constitution provides for an executive secretary, who is to have charge of all matters pertaining to the Association on which decision is necessary between sessions of the executive committee. The executive secretary will also keep a roster of all members of the organization and the activities of the various local chapters. This otticer will be selected as soon as the strength of the organization permits. Valparaiso University is this year celebrating the tenth anniversary of its acquisi- tion by a group of men in the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church who possessed the courage and conviction to meet the demands of a long felt educational need. To Valparaiso University and to all those responsible For its success, the Alumni Association pledges its sincere co-operation and interest. Page I7

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To Our Graduates of 1935: According to the oilicial statement at its aims and objectives, Valparaiso Uni- versity seeks to serve the young men and women who enroll as students by oilering them a thorough training in such Fields ol learning as its lacilities and resources permit, and by oFiering them this training in an environment which, by deepening their Christian consciousness, will at the same time tencl to promote their spiritual well-being and growth. it is the fervent hope of the undersigned that Valparaiso University has been able to achieve this aim in a Fair measure with respect to the Fine group of young men and women who will receive their diplomas on Commencement Day in attesta- tion of the fact that they have met the academic requirements for graduation. Yet, how For the University has succeeded in the attainment of its aim with respect to these young men and women will be evidenced more by the graduates themselves than by the diplomas which they will receive. lt will be evidenced by the things they do and say as they leave the institution; by the diligence with which they will apply themselves to their respective tasks,- by the ability which they will manilest in doing their work,- by the principles oi honor, integrity, and justice by which they will be guided in their actions; by the type at service they shall render as members at the church and as citizens oi the state. Naturally we shall follow their careers with keen interest and with the ardent hope that their future activities will give abundant proof of the achievement, in a good measure, of its high aim by the institution which they call their Alma Mater. My friends of the class ol1935, our very best wishes go with you. My parting word is the prayer that the blessing of God may rest upon you abund- antly. Very sincerely yours, I President. Page I9